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Posts Tagged ‘google maps’

Geodancing

20 July 2010 tagged driving, google maps, minimal maps, one-way streets with 3 comments

The other day Axis Mapper Dave was working with styled maps in the Google Maps API and made a brief styling mistake—all the small roads disappeared but their one-way arrows remained.

It was actually kind of an interesting perspective on the street system, a stripped-down view of engineered traffic patterns or perhaps a measure of the [...]

Charts in the landscape

1 June 2010 tagged aerial, charts, google maps with 6 comments

A couple of weeks ago Nathaniel Kelso tweeted a link to an interesting Bolivian land use pattern seen in Google Maps. First thing that popped into my nerd brain: polar area diagram!

There are also some (possibly stacked) bar charts nearby.

Over in the United States are some ordinary pie charts. Poor contrast among those colors, though!

Much [...]